Financial guru Ash Exantus took his love for finance and hip-hop, and merged them into a phenomenal tool for the financial misfit. Ash Exantus, better known as Ash Cash was inspired by Jay-Z’s album 4:44 to write The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspirations Learned From 4:44. Although Cash is a finance expert, he was still...
Filmmaker Spike Lee reboots his first joint into a ten episode Netflix series. She’s Gotta Have It is based in modern-day Fort Greene Brooklyn, and chronicles the life of the sex-positive, polyamorous, pan-sexual Nola Darling, (DeWanda Wise) and the three men she’s dating all at once! Three completely different men, from different walks of life...
Recently I moved into a new place, and being in a new place without cable or Internet will force you to find different ways to entertain yourself. Ruling out the options of playing cards or board games (do they still make them?), I simply reverted back to my childhood days when the cable might...
You hear it all the time. The debate on what sex or race has it worst. Between media’s portrayal and the agenda society pushes down our throats, it’s easy to remain in a constant war of the sexes and who actually has it worst. I was watching one of my favorite shows Being Mary Jane...
Gone are the days when your mother would force you to tuck in your t-shirt, in hopes it prevented you from looking sloppy. Those days are long and gone, just like the 80’s and 90’s. But the trends from those eras have returned with a vengeance; for instance, dad hats. Whether you want to fell...
The man, the myth, the legend, known as Lawrence Walker has become the superhero for black men everywhere. After being cheated on by his longtime girlfriend Issa (Issa Rae) in season one of HBO’s new hit comedy Insecure; Lawrence’s (Jay Ellis) comeback story is becoming a win for all men. While season two started off...
“Five years after R. Kelly’s indictment on child-pornography charges, there have been plenty of allegations, denials, hearings, motions, and countermotions, but no sign of justice. As Kelly’s wife and brother turn against him, and as his fifth year without a trial comes to a close, R. Kelly keeps dropping hits, collecting awards, touring the world,...
I wanna be, I wanna be like MIKE…”I perform like Mike, anyone Tyson, Jordan, Jackson, Action,” said The Notorious BIG in the song “Victory.” Far as my knowledge, BIG was the first rapper that referred to himself as the greats, known as Mike. Since then, that line has been recycled and a slew of other...
One thing that everyone has in common is a mother, and everyone wants to brag about his or her mother in particular. What better way to do it than through song? We all have a favorite song that reminds us of our mother. Over the years we’ve been lucky to have artist share their kind...
There’s one thing to like a song or really enjoy it, but it’s another thing when the song actually reflects your current situation. That’s the power of music! A song can take on a completely new meaning and feeling when you’re actually living out the lyrics. I guess that’s how the term when words fail,...